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slow_pulse_boy « You can do everything, but everything must be done »
Published on 05/30/12 at 12:39The installation is to feed her 5 DVD drive well filled. Necessarily easy but a bit long. Then you must register the product online for each computer, and there is limited number of installations.
Manuals (in pdf) are very complete and almost always sufficiently detailed. English required.
NB: having already acquired EasyDrummer I crossgrade version, but I do not think it changes much to the installation. There is just a pittance of config to do if we want to continue using its banks or its Easydrummer Drumkit from hell superior.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
I started with a 3ghz P4 and 1GB of memory only, and then I went to 2.
Because an old version of sequencer I could not use the drive grooves (now I can, but I learned to do without).
With this setup very limited, even when I came to turn my stuff in the prices of some constraints, most of which are managed by the software. Explanation: The bounce is done offline, the maximum sample is then used and in their 24-bit version. For work, you may request load samples in 16-bit memory (33% gain in one click), you can choose with how many samples per layer we work, and totally set the repisse (very heavy in samples and therefore memory). A counter allows to see the amount of samples in memory. It may therefore be an example config "real time" with 200MB of samples, a config "cueing" with a little over 400MB repisse that will load, etc..
Well, with my first config (below that recommended), once I had an instance of Superior Drummer open it took me 30 to 40% of CPU even before you press play. In short, it was pretty boring but with a little adaptation I could still work.
New config for 1 year: 2.6 ghz quad core, 4GB RAM (recently raised to 8). I went from V3 to V10 Sonar (X1). I also increased the storage but this is less important, having always been hard at 7200 r / min.
It works very well. Witnesses CPU load and disk barely react with 600MB of samples loaded.
In conclusion, it is necessarily perfect, since, if it is not, just change a few settings and it becomes one.
OVERALL OPINION
I started by buying Drumkit from hell 2, which is a shit unnamed unstable at will. Too bad because it sounds good. Then I switched to Easydrummer (with its extension Drumkit from hell) I highly recommend for making models. I switched to SD2 4 years ago in order to control more parameters.
What I love most is that you can do anything. What I like least is the flip side: As we have not done certain things indispensable way it sounds, necessarily, so you have time to provide a grip.
There are 2-3 things I wish I could change, and exceptionally it is impossible. For example, the stereo when you export offline, background tracks are breaded in terms of the drummer, so if you want a stereo image in public view, must be exported via the integrated mixer.
Finally, a caveat on the sounds of the bank "Avatar" provided. On one, it's a shame to have such a choice of cymbals and all are of the same brand. Two, instead of having a position Ride and a choice of four cymbals, we have 4 positions with a single ride cymbal we choose to enable or not, it did seem like much, but as two of these cymbals are located to the left of the kit, at the stereo it bothers. Three, the serious lack of bass drum when the power increases, we must really work hard to kick eq and compression on all three tracks (drum head, leaving GC, sub) for a realistic sound.
A report, the Toontrack forum is a mine (if only one still reads and writes English).
As usual, a block of points (almost retail) to improve, while the good report is in one line. But it's really a great tool. I can not compare with its competitors (BFD), but I do it again this choice without hesitation.
Manuals (in pdf) are very complete and almost always sufficiently detailed. English required.
NB: having already acquired EasyDrummer I crossgrade version, but I do not think it changes much to the installation. There is just a pittance of config to do if we want to continue using its banks or its Easydrummer Drumkit from hell superior.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
I started with a 3ghz P4 and 1GB of memory only, and then I went to 2.
Because an old version of sequencer I could not use the drive grooves (now I can, but I learned to do without).
With this setup very limited, even when I came to turn my stuff in the prices of some constraints, most of which are managed by the software. Explanation: The bounce is done offline, the maximum sample is then used and in their 24-bit version. For work, you may request load samples in 16-bit memory (33% gain in one click), you can choose with how many samples per layer we work, and totally set the repisse (very heavy in samples and therefore memory). A counter allows to see the amount of samples in memory. It may therefore be an example config "real time" with 200MB of samples, a config "cueing" with a little over 400MB repisse that will load, etc..
Well, with my first config (below that recommended), once I had an instance of Superior Drummer open it took me 30 to 40% of CPU even before you press play. In short, it was pretty boring but with a little adaptation I could still work.
New config for 1 year: 2.6 ghz quad core, 4GB RAM (recently raised to 8). I went from V3 to V10 Sonar (X1). I also increased the storage but this is less important, having always been hard at 7200 r / min.
It works very well. Witnesses CPU load and disk barely react with 600MB of samples loaded.
In conclusion, it is necessarily perfect, since, if it is not, just change a few settings and it becomes one.
OVERALL OPINION
I started by buying Drumkit from hell 2, which is a shit unnamed unstable at will. Too bad because it sounds good. Then I switched to Easydrummer (with its extension Drumkit from hell) I highly recommend for making models. I switched to SD2 4 years ago in order to control more parameters.
What I love most is that you can do anything. What I like least is the flip side: As we have not done certain things indispensable way it sounds, necessarily, so you have time to provide a grip.
There are 2-3 things I wish I could change, and exceptionally it is impossible. For example, the stereo when you export offline, background tracks are breaded in terms of the drummer, so if you want a stereo image in public view, must be exported via the integrated mixer.
Finally, a caveat on the sounds of the bank "Avatar" provided. On one, it's a shame to have such a choice of cymbals and all are of the same brand. Two, instead of having a position Ride and a choice of four cymbals, we have 4 positions with a single ride cymbal we choose to enable or not, it did seem like much, but as two of these cymbals are located to the left of the kit, at the stereo it bothers. Three, the serious lack of bass drum when the power increases, we must really work hard to kick eq and compression on all three tracks (drum head, leaving GC, sub) for a realistic sound.
A report, the Toontrack forum is a mine (if only one still reads and writes English).
As usual, a block of points (almost retail) to improve, while the good report is in one line. But it's really a great tool. I can not compare with its competitors (BFD), but I do it again this choice without hesitation.